Elisheva — #2383 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Elisheva

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,361 babies named Elisheva between 1965 and 2024, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elisheva currently holds the #2383 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 83 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elisheva performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 632 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Elisheva shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,017 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Elisheva in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elisheva in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,361 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.